Professors Elizabeth Blair of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Sherry Deckman of the City University of New York are co-editors of The Sage Encyclopedia of Education and Gender (Sage Publications, 2025), a new reference text outlining how gender affects students, educators, schools, and society.
Designed for students, faculty, researchers, teachers, administrators, and other readers interested in the field of education, the encyclopedia includes hundreds of entries on topics such as school climate, higher education, disability, youth identity, curriculum, race, STEM education, mental health, and international education.
“This encyclopedia comes at a time when matters related to gender and education are increasingly fraught and urgent in the United States and globally and is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to understand how gender shapes educational experiences and outcomes — from the classroom to national policy,” said Dr. Deckman.
At the City University of New York, Dr. Deckman teaches as an associate professor of education at Lehman College and the Graduate Center. She also serves as the executive officer of the university’s Ph.D. program in urban education. Her current research and teaching focus on how educators are prepared to work with students from diverse race, class, and gender backgrounds, as well as how educators address issues of race, class, and gender inequity and injustice in schools. Dr. Deckman is the author of Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower (Rutgers University Press, 2022). A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she earned her master’s degree and doctorate in education from Harvard University.
Dr. Blair is an associate professor of educational foundations at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Her research centers on teaching and learning relationships, identity, and educational equity in elementary through postsecondary contexts, with a special focus on gender, gender identity, and equity. In addition to teaching, Dr. Blair also serves as associate editor for the Journal for Multicultural Education. She earned her educational doctorate from Harvard University.